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Definition of Offertories
1. offertory [n] - See also: offertory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Offertories
Literary usage of Offertories
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1894)
"And now a word as to the allocation of Church offertories. We have to depend very
much for this upon our good friends, the churchwardens, who are sometimes ..."
2. Hymns of the Church, New and Old by William Vail Wilson Davis, Raymond Calkins (1912)
"... And pure devotion rise, While, round these hallowed walls, the storm Of
earth-born passion dies. Amen. WILLIAM CULLIN BRYANT offertories JOSEPH ..."
3. A life at one living by Alfred Gatty (1884)
"... paid out of the offertories. * In support of the theory, that bodies used to
be systematically taken from their graves, after a time, and the bones ..."
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